Sentence examples for drupe from inspiring English sources

The drupe is the prevailing fruit type in Piperaceae, or the pepper family, whereas dry fruits characterize the four other families.

The fruit is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit) that is generally heart-shaped to nearly globular, about 2 cm (1 inch) in diameter, and varies in colour from yellow through red to nearly black.

A coconut is a drupe (a stony-seeded fruit) with a fibrous outer part.

A walnut is a drupe in which the pericarp has differentiated into a fleshy outer husk and an inner hard "shell"; the "meat" represents the seed two large convoluted cotyledons, a minute epicotyl and hypocotyl, and a thin papery seed coat.

The tart bluish black fruit is a drupe, about 2 cm in diameter, and is used to flavour sloe gin.

The family has large, usually alternate, compound leaves, five-parted flowers arranged in compound umbels (flat-topped clusters), and a berry or (rarely) a drupe (a one-seeded fruit).

The fruits are berries, drupes, or nuts.

Botanically speaking, blackberries and raspberries are not "berries" but aggregates of tiny drupes.

The flowers are pollinated by small bees and flies and produce round drupes known as acai berries.

The family has large, usually alternate, compound leaves, five-parted flowers arranged in compound umbels, and fruits that are generally fleshy (berries or drupes).

Fruits of sedges are most commonly achenes (nutlets), but in a few genera, notably Mapania and Scirpodendron, are single-seeded fleshy fruits called drupes.